Traffic Collection

Please, Mr Policeman, where is Father Christmas by Matania
In the centre of London, close to Piccadilly Circus, two children stop a policeman from directing traffic to ask him where Father Christmas is

O Connell Street, Limerick City, Republic of Ireland
O Connell Street, Limerick City, County Limerick, Republic of Ireland. circa 1960s

Martin Luther, 95 Theses
He nails up his 95 Theses, or Propositions, attacking the Churchs traffic in indulgences, on the door of All Saints Church, Wittenberg

Dundalk, County Louth, Republic of Ireland. circa 1970s

The Car That Touched a Policeman by H. M. Bateman
An entire queue of traffic, as well as pedestrians stop and look on in horror as a couple driving a small, yellow car accidentally bump an incandescently irate policeman in the middle of the road

Manchesters last tram on its farewell journey, heading for the Depot. A group of people wave from the pavement. Date: 1949

High Row, Darlington, County Durham
A view of High Row in Darlington, County Durham, showing a clock tower, traffic and shops

View down Montpelier Vale, Blackheath Village, London
A superb postcard view down Montpelier Vale, Blackheath Village, London - the detial is incredible, with individual shops identifiable, the pavements as busy (as they ever are)

Gyrocopter Beats Traffic
The Campbell Cricket one-man gyrocopter is used for speedy commuting above the traffic and passengers queuing at the bus stop Date: late 1960s

Grafton Street, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. circa 1970s

Busy street scene at Spitalfields, East End of London
A busy street scene at Spitalfields in the East End of London. The location is the junction of Commercial Street and Brushfield Street. The building at the right is Spitalfields Market

Stamford / Lincs 1950S
A huge sign spanning the street advertises the George Hotel, Stamford, Lincolnshire. There is hardly any traffic, despite signs for both the a and the RAC

Glasgow, Scotland - The Great Western Road. Date: 1932

Marylebone High Street, London. Date: circa 1908

St Patricks Street and Bridge, Cork City, Ireland
St Patricks Street and Bridge, Cork City, Republic of Ireland. circa 1960s

Stratford Broadway, Stratford, East London, with Samuel Gurney obelisk. Date: circa 1910

Very Long Dachshund Dog
A very long Dachshund causes a problem for traffic when it crosses the road with his owner. Date: 1918

Four views of Dublin, Republic of Ireland. circa 1960s

Bourne & Hollingsworth, Oxford Street, London
Bourne & Hollingsworth department store, Oxford Street, London. Date: circa 1920

Bus embedded in house, Blackstock Road, London
Bus embedded in the front of a house in Blackstock Road, London NW4, on 13 January 1974. The car in the foreground was shunted through a garden wall after being struck by the bus

Metropolitan Police officer on traffic duty
A Metropolitan Police officer, PC Edward Ridout of Chelsea Police Station, on traffic duty. He is standing by a zebra crossing to help a little boy across the road

Poster advertising Johannesburg, South Africa
Poster advertising Johannesburg, the Metropolis of South Africa. A couple in silhouette look down on a bustling city

Grand Hotel, Chowringhee Road, Calcutta, India
Grand Hotel, Chowringhee Road, Calcutta (Kolkata), India. Date: circa 1905

Corner of Baker Street and Dorset Street, Marylebone, London
National Westminster Bank building on the corner of Baker Street and Dorset Street, Marylebone, London. Date: circa 1905

People salmon netting at Bideford, Devon
Four people standing in the water salmon netting at Bideford, Devon. Date: circa 1960s

Fourth Avenue, Huntington, West Virginia, USA
Fourth Avenue (looking east), Huntington, West Virginia, USA. 1915

Advertisement for The Graphic
A striking advertisement for weekly illustrated magazine, The Graphic (founded 1869 by William Luson Thomas), showing a busy street scene with buses and trams advertising the paper

Angel Islington 1930S
A cyclist stops and takes in the night-time scene as a policeman directs the traffic at the crossroads on Upper Street, the Angel Islington, London

Corbetts Vision
In American planner Harvey Corbetts vision of a future city, fast traffic will be segregated from slow, and people from both Date: 1925

Marylebone Road and Baker Street, Marylebone, London
View of Marylebone Road and Baker Street, Marylebone, London. circa 1905

High Street, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA
High Street viewed from City Hall, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA. Date: 1923

Lti 20-20 Speed Gun
Metropolitan police officer with LTI 20-20 speed gun checking the speed of cars in the traffic

Open gas street light at Kings Cross
A street view with an open gas street light in the foreground, two high walls to either side of the road, a man walking, traffic on the road

Two Women on Kings Road
Two women walk down the Kings Road, Chelsea, London as traffic passes by

Long Dachshund Dog
The solution to the problem for traffic when a very long Dachshund crosses the road with is owner. Simply tie its body in a knot

Lewisham Clock Tower
One pram, one horse-drawn cart - there isn t much of a traffic problem at Lewisham Clock Tower !

Main Street and Post Office, Gibraltar, on a busy day. Date: 1910s

Silence sign outside Charing Cross Hospital
A Quiet for the Wounded sign for traffic hanging outside Charing Cross Hospital in London during World War I

O Connell St and Bridge showing Nelsons Pillar, Dublin
O Connell Street and Bridge showing Nelsons Pillar, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Date: circa 1960s

London Bridge over the River Thames, London, now situated at Lake Havasu City, Arizona. It was purchased in 1968 by Robert McCulloch and re-opened in America in 1971. Date: 1903

Selfridges Exterior 30S
An exterior view of Selfridges department store on Londons Oxford Street

Welford on Avon / Glos
In Welford-on Avon, Warwickshire, traffic congestion is minimal and parking is a doddle

GLC-LFB Road traffic accident (RTA)
A collision between a bus and car resulted in the bus careering into a terraced house and a response by all the emergency services

Traffic Police Officer
Traffic police officer giving stop signal number 2. Metropolitan police

Futuristic transport -- the torpedo car
This is how Mr Fletcher Felts suggests we tackle the inner- city traffic problem - monorails whizzing over the jammed cars, whirring smoothly past our windows

Tunnel connecting Liverpool with Birkenhead 1926
Diagram showing where the tunnel connecting Liverpool to Birkenhead would be, under the River Mersey. Spanning 44ft wide with two desks for vehicles only

Street view, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
Street view from Kamania Gate, Jabalpur (Jubbulpore), Madhya Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1910s

New Forth Road Bridge - just before opening - October, 1936
The New Forth Bridge (the Kincardine Road Bridge), Scotland - just before opening - 27th October, 1936. At the time, the centre swing span was the longest in Europe

The Mall, Tralee, County Kerry, Republic of Ireland. circa 1970s

Aerial view, Bunder Road, Karachi, Pakistan
Aerial view, Bunder Road (now M. A. Jinnah Road), Karachi, Sindh Province, Pakistan, on a busy day. Date: circa 1950

Soho, London - Rupert Street W1, looking towards Brewer Street and Isows Restaurant. 1973

Advertisement in High Street, Bromley, Kent
Advertisement for Palmolive soap, superimposed onto a photograph of High Street, Bromley, Kent. circa 1900s

Hang Dau Water Tank in Hanoi, Vietnam

Manchester 1960S
A view of busy Cross Street and the Royal Exchange Building, Manchester, England. Date: April 1964

Slow Velocipede
A man pushing his boneshaker velocipede bicycle in Holborn, central London, through a heavy traffic jam! Date: early 1930s

LCC-LFB Major fire at Prudential Insurance Building
Massive crowds gather to watch the London Fire Brigade fight the fire in the Prudential Assurance Company building located in High Holborn WC1, 16 June 1932

Female Traffic Warden
A female traffic warden in Chelsea, London, issuing a parking ticket to an unfortunate motorist. Date: late 1960s

Police Motorcycles
Metropolitan Police motorcyclists esccorting an ambulance past Buckingham Palace in London

England / Farnham
A very quiet day in Farnham, Surrey, showing Farnham Castle, a Norman castle overlooking the town from a hill, the home of the Bishops of Winchester for 700 years

Streatham Hill 1950S
Elevated view of Streatham Hill, showing a relatively traffic-free road, with only a few cars and trams

Traffic Police C. 1900
Three police officers, one in uniform and two in plain clothes working together to catch speeding motorists. The two plain clothed policemen hold stopwatches

c. 1900 Austria Vienna city view with Stephanie Bridge
c.1900 Austria Vienna city view with Stephanie Bridge

St. James Street Montreal, Canada
19th century vintage photograph: St. James Street Montreal, Canada, pedestrian and horse drawn traffic

Ornamental fountain Parc de la Ciutadella, Barcelona, Spain
Ornamental fountain and falls in the Parc de la Ciutadella Barcelona, Spain Date: circa 1930s

Jalan Kesawan, Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia
Jalan Kesawan (street) in Medan, Sumatra, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Date: circa 1920s

Street scene, Nollendorfplatz, West Berlin, Germany
Street scene in Nollendorfplatz, West Berlin, Germany, showing the Metropol building (Neues Schauspielhaus or New Theatre), used at various times as a theatre, a concert hall and a cinema

Oxford Street looking west from Oxford Circus, London. Date: circa 1900

View of Great Titchfield Street, London, on the corner of Langham Street, showing an aerial view of the street market. circa 1905

Main Street, Natchez, Mississippi, USA
View of a busy Main Street in Natchez, Mississippi, USA. Date: circa 1904

Murdoch Bath House, Galveston, Texas, USA
The Murdoch Bath House, by the Sea Wall Boulevard, Galveston, Texas, USA. 1911

Scene of an accident in an Islington street, London
Scene of an accident in an Islington street, North London, with a trolley bus passing by

Promenade and Pavilion, Rhyl, North Wales - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Hotel Papua at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Hotel Papua at Port Moresby, the capital city of Papua New Guinea - a local policeman directing the traffic beneath a large clock. Date: 1961

Holborn Circus and Viaduct, City of London Date: circa 1900

A small tugboat pulling a number of Thames River Barges
A lovely postcard composition depicting small tugboat pulling a number of Thames River Barges. Date: circa 1909

Soho, London - Shaftesbury Avenue W1, outside the Apollo Theatre. 1973

General view, La Paz, Bolivia, South America
General view of La Paz, Bolivia, South America, with mountains in the distance. Date: circa 1940

Karntnerstrasse, Vienna, Austria
Karntnerstrasse (Carinthian Street), a famous shopping street in Vienna, Austria. Date: late 1940s

High Street, Springfield, Ohio, USA
View of the High Street, Springfield, Ohio, USA, with pedestrians and traffic. Date: circa 1910

Traffic congestion, Covent Garden, London WC2
Traffic congestion in the Covent Garden area, London WC2, showing a view along Henrietta Street from the corner of Bedford Street during the morning of 26 March 1959

Traffic Warden
A London traffic warden issuing a parking ticket to a hapless motorist. Not a popular profession. Date: 1980

Comedy Theatre, Panton Street, London
The Comedy Theatre (now the Harold Pinter Theatre) on the corner of Panton Street and Oxendon Street, in Londons West End. The Crime of Margaret Foley is playing. Date: 1947

Embankment and River Thames, London
View of the Embankment and River Thames, London, on a misty day, with traffic crossing a bridge. circa 1940s

Union Workhouse, Hertford
A view of Hertford Union workhouse, Hertfordshire, opened in around 1869 on Ware Road, Hertford. The imposing three-storey building has a clock tower at its centre

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